Welcome to Tokyo Kimono Lovers Club. We have kimono wearing lessons in English. If you would like to know how to wear kimono on your own, or practice how to wear it nicely, or chat in English about kimono, this is the place. Please contact Shino who has a kimono wearing class at her house in Meguro Tokyo.

4/28/14

As a reporter of Cruise Travel Magazine, I cruised 7 days round trip from Tokyo bay, visited Korea and Nagoya with my kimono mate Rie.

I tied a boat obi and a mountain and wave obi on a tatewaku rising steam kimono. It was fun to wear obis and kimonos relate to a ship and sea.

On two formal nights, we swapped each other's homongi so we wore a different kimono every night! This is the best way to save kimono when we travel. Traveling in kimono should be with lady friends. Not with a man...

On the second formal night, Rie tied a gold kiribame tessellate hanhaba obi. I tied a silver ryusui flowing water fukuro obi. Both were gorgeous enough on near 140,000 tonnage huge cruise ship, right?

Cultural Experience Class in Tokyo Meguro

ABOUT ME

Thank you for your interests on kimono. Kimono is magic. It is quite comfortable to wear, and tells you lots of historical secrets why kimono have been worn over a thousand years. Sadly, kimono wearers become minority recently, so you can be a special person if you wear kimono.
Now I am offering kimono wearing lesson in English on request bases. If you would like to join, please contact shinokimono at gmail. With just three times lessons, I will make you to be able to wear kimono (if you practice at your home hard). Anyhow, the lesson is really fun and good exercise. Please join my kimono club!

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Kimono Enthusiasts

Antiquie Kimonos on Auction

Would you like to have some? I would bit for you! Please contact from here.

My favorite kimono magazine Nanao's English version

a selection of the best articles from Japanese kimono magazine

PHOTO BOOK:Kimono for these 90 years

Kimono photos on Japanese Housewife Magazine from the first to the last issue. (1917-2007)

Kimono History BOOK:Marriage in Edo

This book introduces how every class of Japanese in Edo era carried their wedding ceremony by texts and some illustrations (not so many and they are monochrome). The most interesting to me was Edo wedding was carried at night. This is the reason of Japanese traditional bride wear all in white!

PHOTO BOOK: Shigeko Ikeda Collection, Haneri Kimono Collars

300 antique collars from Meiji to early-Showa. On this book, she said she was taught by her mother that collars showed the person. So when you saw a person, saw the collar first…

PHOTO BOOK: Empress Michiko's Kimonos

Elegant state of the art kimonos Empress Michiko wore from her engagemtn in 1958 to canada visit in 2008.

PHOTO BOOK: Shimagame in Ginza

Some established woman novelists' status kimono. Beautiful, sensitive and adored

PHOTO BOOK: Men's Kimono

Men's kimono is easy to wear. Only this book is enough to know how to wear and what men's kimono is.